Net Spend Per Trophy

Strange how Spurs, Liverpool, United and Arsenal all put their financial status down to success and trophies won. The truth of the matter is that all 4 clubs had "sugar daddys" in the 60's and 70's. Without the Edwards, Moores etc then their would have been no initial success.
Did their money launch what success they had in the 80's 90's and noughties....definately not but it wasnt the success that provided the capital either. It was the floatation on the stock exchange that financed the spending of those clubs and therein started the spiral we find ourselves in today. Without clubs floating on the SM they wouldnt have had the capital to inject pre sky and aggresive marketing.Modern clubs are reaping the trouble that brought into the game with clubs like United, City, Liverpool and potentially Arsenal all bought by foreign owners on the Exchange.
So basicly Spurs started the decline and ruined football in 1983 when they floated their club and paved the way for every other club to follow suit because of the money they raised to finance the club.

Hajifur has a tattoo saying net an spend on each buttock!

With the number of cups they've won in their deep history, plus the number of players they've sold, I guess Preston North End's Net Spend/Trophy eclipses all the teams outline by the OP and should be given a place at the top table of football.

Brilliant logic.

Don't look for logic from haj just look for bitterness and.......... NET SPEND NET SPEND WIBBLE FINANCIAL DOPING SPREADSHEETS NET SPEND AAAAAAAAAAAASSARGGGGHHHHHH NOT BACK IN THE CUPBOARD WITH THE EVIL ABACUS!

Articles like this make me laugh. The inference that we're somehow cheating in order to get somewhere and the notion that it's all somehow hollow. Laughable.

Go and ask a lottery winner how hollow they feel with their mansion with a Ferrari parked in the driveway and an impending month long sojourn to St. Lucia. I'll bet hollow isn't a word that enters the response.

Then ask their next door neighbour how they feel. In a word... Jealous.

So you're all just jealous and trying to spoil it for us. Except it won't work. We were here for years, cheering on our team through thin and thinner and Alan Ball. The only difference your green eyed comments will make is that, if we do win on Sunday, we'll enjoy it all the more.

I think Arsenal should be the only ones worried about trophies, especially if RVP leaves - expected

Jeez, not trying to denigrate anyones achievements here...just posting something I found interesting. If you don't, then don't comment.

GG: you're a sensitive soul. I'm sorry.

However, you placed an article on the premise that it would be interesting. I, and some other people gave you our thoughts which does not necessarily correlate to your opinion.

You tell us not to comment.

Is this how a forum works?

"Jeez, not trying to denigrate anyones achievements here...just posting something I found interesting"

WUMs pull this kind of stunt on us all the time, using the money and trophies mix to try and make out like we're not very good. If you're going to perform a suitable comparison, I find it's more worthwhile to compare like for like, rather than the "United have won 21 trophies" angle, which over time may be accurate, but over the same period we've not had the squad, nor the cup winning qualifications, and on occasion not even in the same league.

Statistics are rarely interesting, and even less so when they are skewed to back up a bias. Your article came across as bias, hence the backlash.